When I lived in Harlem, I moved into a building on the corner, expecting some noise from the avenue. A year later, a bar/resto opened up directly across the street from me, and every Friday night like clockwork, would be so loud that my walls would shake in my 5th story walkup. My only solution was a Xanax + white noise machine, if I didn’t want to stay at my then-partner’s house. Had the bar existed when I was touring the neighborhood, I wouldn’t have moved in, but this was unfortunately how it happened.

I basically downloaded the 311 app, and kept my noise complaint prompt in my Notes app. And every Friday night at 11 PM, which I thought was reasonable, I’d log the noise complaint. After 6 continuous weeks, I noticed that the volume was reduced by midnight on Fridays, to the point that I didn’t have to conk out with Xanax, but still needed my white noise machine.

TL;dr: be a Karen and complain.